--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The story of Anoop CHandola hearing from the Shankaracharya of the > > North that MMY was his first choice to be his sucessor is > Chandola's > > own story. > > And completely irrelevant to reality. :-)
Not at all. It shows that MMY had very high standing within his own spiritual tradition, so speculations that he was suffering from a case of spiritual sour grapes aren't well-founded. Had he been of a different caste, he WOULD have been Shankaracharya of the North. > > It's a "See...somebody 'important' thinks Maharishi is > cool" story, like trotting out stories of how Larry King > still thinks well of him, as if that settles things. > > > He never learned official "TM." He learned meditation from > > Swami Shantananda Shankaracharya,as did his family. The local TM > > center always invited him to all functions, however. > > > > Joyce Weaver's story about Satchananda squishing a bug was a first- > > hand account as far as I know. Ditto with MMY yelling at some > > workers. Virginia Duncan, whom I *think* was the one who told it to > > me, was on one of the earliest TTCs in India. > > And equally irrelevant to reality. The stories "mean" > something only to people who believe they "mean" > something. That's true of any arbitrary story. I was merely pointing out that the stories I was quoting were often first-hand accounts by people who were there. What possible relevance would Joyce weaver's story about bug-squishing have to anything OTHER THAN it was a first-hand account, unlike what you implied earlier? > > Stories are sometimes used to inspire. Sometimes they > are used as a club, as someone tells a story that "means" > something to someone else, to get them to shut up and > believe the things that they want you to believe. Look > at the use of "storytelling" in modern politics. The > minute Bush starts telling a story about "Gladys Filch, > who lived in Bumfuck, Iowa, and who..." you *know* he's > trying to sell you something, and doesn't have any facts > to back up what he's trying to sell you. :-) > Stories are also used to teach important lessons, etc. They can also be used to counter negative stories that are floating around on this forum about what a lousy spiritual teacher, human being, father, son, pet-owner, etc. MMY is. Apparently something that you and many others don't want to hear. You especially. Otherwise, why bother commenting either way about something that you purportedly don't care about? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
